And lo on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:40:09 +0100, Eero Ahonen  
<aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> did spake, saying:

> Invisible wrote:
>>  Even so, you would think there would have to be some kind of *cause*  
>> for this. The broken drive has been tried on another machine and found  
>> to not work there either. However, the person made a comment about a  
>> second USB drive having recently failed in exactly the same way. This  
>> makes me rather suspicious...
>>
>
> She might be removing[1] them without removing[2] them.
>
> [1] Physically
> [2] By the eject -command

But I thought the default option on XP was to allow that. Even if she had  
physically removed it the next time it was plugged in it would complain  
and ask if you wanted to run chkdsk.

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